Yves Aubry of the Canadian Wildlife Service led an expedition to French Guiana to assess numbers of red knots and to understand more about the conditions. French Guiana, home to Devils Island, is no place for the casual birding enthusiast through natural riches abound. Thoroughly tropical, the coastal zone wears a very strange social environment that is both wild and deeply french. Unlike most northern South American countries French Guiana provides all citizens as a modest social safety net. We found knots in the Mana rice fields feeding in the ocean surf slowly destroying derelict rice fields.
I owe my carreer to the sport of hunting. As…